| % defer/defer.tex |
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| \QuickQuizChapter{chp:Deferred Processing}{Deferred Processing} |
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| The strategy of deferring work goes back before the dawn of recorded |
| history. It has occasionally been derided as procrastination or |
| even as sheer laziness. |
| However, in the last few decades workers have recognized this strategy's value |
| in simplifying and streamlining parallel algorithms~\cite{Kung80,HMassalinPhD}. |
| Believe it or not, ``laziness'' in parallel programming often outperforms and |
| scales better than does industriousness! |
| General approaches to such work deferral tactics include |
| reference counting, sequence locking, and RCU. |
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| \input{defer/refcnt} |
| \input{defer/seqlock} |
| \input{defer/rcu} |
| \input{defer/rcuexercises} |
| \input{defer/whichtochoose} |
| \input{defer/updates} |
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| % @@@ compare and contrast the various mechanisms. |
